overclocking/Ram questions

[Sylvanas]

well i cant do anything over 1.75vcore and 180fsb on my barton 2800. if i do go over, it just wont boot and requires cmos reset, and ideas here? (ram @ 2.65v and AGP@1.6 these are the highest settings) and in cpu-z under FSBRAM it has 5:6 im not too up to date on what this means someone care to explain? is this a good configuration for overclocking?

Also, i have 512mb of Corsair xms 3200LL in it right now. im aiming to buy 2x256 to put in the other 2 slots for it to work in dual channel mode. i have a generic 512mb ram just sitting there. if i put this in with the Xms 3200 would i see a performance increase? is it worth it?

and finally if i do buy 2x256 modules i want my investment to as far as possible as im planning on buying a PCI-E rig in december/january. and these require ddr2, i dont want to go and have to buy more ram again, but im seeing that some mobo's coming out have ddr1 and ddr2 interfaces wil they be widespread? will these infaces be available on the s939 A64's in future?

thanks for your time.

 

[JeffreyY]

Hmm... you want your FSB:RAM ratio to be 1:1 (this could also be 3:3, 6:6, whatever as long if they match up) for best performance. This should be an option in your BIOS. As for the generic 512mb RAM... the performance increase you would get would be the increased amount of memory. 1GB is definitely better for multitasking. Don't know too much about PCI-E or DDR2.

 

[Sylvanas]

ah you were correct. the Ram was totally out of spec and it was also limiting my overclocking im now on 185fsb and 1.775vcore and i can still go much higher. do you think 1.775 vcore is too high? im now on 27c idle and around 35 load. these temps dont seem andything to be worried about. so let the vcore go higher?

 

[JeffreyY]

Wow... those are awesome temperatures... do you live in Alaska or something? =P Hmm, refer to the other thread I started regarding vcore. It depends on how long you want your CPU to last I guess. You should be able to get a lot more out of it with 1.775 vcore. I'm at 2.5Ghz with 1.725 vcore.